The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-07-20


home once more. 80 Miss Kate Bowles,
who has been teaching in district No o,
Barre, closed her school last Saturday. The
scholars having no absent or tardy marks
were Alice Blanchard, Zilda Abbott, Willie
Spear and Charlie Spear. Those having no
absent marks were Jennie, Josie and Charlie
Holden and Fred Hall. Those having no
tardy marks were Walter, Frank and Elmer
Bellville, Henry and Herbert Cutler, Bertha
and Frank Smith, Wilbur Nichols and
Frank Kinney Miss Bowles was presented
with two handsome volumes of poems by
her pupils.
Williamstown.
ACCORDING to Lucius S. Simons' reckoning,
the rainfall here last month was four and
five-eighths inches. - On account of
closing the central telephone office in Barre
for the present on Thursday evenings at six
o'clock, messages from this place on those
evenings will be stopped. 60 One close
by here who attended d. L. Moody's re.
cent two weeks term of special study at
Mortified, Mass, tells us that it was a
most enjoyable and profitable affair. As he
and his chum took along a tent for lodging,
the expenses needed to be only about SID.
Next year there ought to be quite good
many hereabouts to avail themselves of a
similar opportunity. For fifty cents one
can get book, in paper covers, containing
much Of the work done there this season. 1t
must be worth many times that to those
who could not go in person to get the good
of it. - A friend in the West tells us
that he and a partner cleared $4,000 last
year in considerably less than twelve
months. They bought horses at auction in
Cincinnati, Ohio (said to be the best horse
market in the country, and took them
further west for sail - The school in
district No. closed on Friday last. The
number of scholars was eleven. Six had no
tardy nor absence marks and nine had no
tardy marks. The former are Mabel Savory,
Fred Poor, Ora Poor, Nellie Daley, Leon
Poor and Vernon Savory. Gardner Poor,
Mary Savory and Daniel Daley had no
tardy marks. Possibly as much or more
credit may be due Lucy and Henry Bannis-
ter, who had much the farthest distance to
walk, and were tardy but three times.
Mary Savory was absent but one day.
In 1857 Lucius S. Simons built barn on his
farm and at present there is about a half a
ton of hay that was put into it that year
This hay looks as bright and smells as fresh
as If put in year ago. Stock eat it well.
or course 1t was covered up the following
year and has seldom seen daylight since
Mr.. Simons feels greatly pleased with his
growing corn crop this year. 1t will be re-
membered that he staggered the faith of
some of our farmers last year by saying that
his corn-fodder fully paid the expense of
raising his corn crop. He thinks this year
he is making the expense of working the
crop much less than last year. An " A -
round steel is what he has this year four
times been over the field with beginning
when the corn was about an inch high He
has cultivated it three times in addition.
Tassels were to be seen June 9th, and week
before last the corn, some of it at least, was
in the silk. OF course he is greatly in favor
OF making corn crop. - A party has
been working some granite powders of
late on Charles Erskne's place. They
are said to polish finely. - There
is sad lack in call the kentry raoun' :"
OF the kindly spirit of good old Mrs.
Darlington, who felt that :" it was bad
enough to die of accident without having
twelve men Ga coroner's jury sit on one
after he was dead" Perhaps the common
est thing here and in some towns about is
an inquest over the body of the Williams
town railroad. In fact the work is so sim
pie child can run it, and so there is no
hour of the day and no day of the week but
somebody is a sttin' on it, Unfortunately,
just as it seems to be pretty generally con-
cluded that Cock Robin is dead, and the
question settled as to who killed it, the old
thing starts into apparent life. Such was
the case last week. We suspect it will soon
awake out of its trance and come forth to
do us all good. - We congratulate the
friends of Chelsea Academy on the fact
that the services of our present village
school-teacher, Miss Sarah Il. Cummings of
STAFFORD, have been secured for the acad-
el1N uHe coming year, nucn as we would
like to retain her here. - Wilbur +.
Adams is haying for J. NJ. Bass. - Miss
Fannie Simons is taking vacation from
her work in Cromwell, Ct, having gone
to Elgin, H., to visit her brothers. -
Mrs. George Beckett accompanied the fam
lily of her brother, Horace Flint on their
return to Gibbon, Nebraska, last week. 1t
is hoped she may be benefited in health by
this change. - Mrs. Mary Bass Clark
and children of Somerville, Mass, are at
her old home here. - Edith Tarbell is
to remain for the present in the vicinity Of
Chicago, ILL.,, where she has been for the
past year. - Mrs Calvin Flint, who has
long been an almost helpless invalid from
paralysis, seems somewhat improved in
general health, though unable to walk
She has been great sufferer. - Miss Lu-
cha Hartman returned from Iowa last week
in the best of health and spirits. - Frank
Barnes came home last week from ID. l..
Moody's Boys School in Mortified, Mass
- Mrs. Liberty Jeffords remains with
her daughter, Mrs. George c. Earle, in
Barre, who, it is thought, has a fever. -
Mrs. Annie Dickerman Davis and husband
are taking vacation from teaching in Ches-
ter among friends hereabouts They are to
return to their work there in the fall. -
Henry Stewart of Berlin and Fannie Mar
tin, daughter of Denison Martin of this
place, were married last week. They are
to reside on Mr.. Martins farm. There are
many good wishes for them in their new
life. - Charles f. Templeton, now of
Fargo, Dakota, a son-n-law of Francis
Carleton, has been made Encouragement
of Dakota. 60 Miss Fannie G. Bass, now
OF Chicago, is spending the summer at the
seaside in Massachusetts. Elliot b.
Watson, son of *. l.. Watson, graduated
from the medical department of the Uni
versity of Vermont on Monday.